Julie Sze, professor of American studies at the University of California-Davis and environmental justice author, will lecture on "Environmental Justice and Environmental Humanities at the Crossroads" at Hamilton College on Monday, March 2. Sze's talk will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Kennedy Auditorium of the Science Center, and is free and open to the public.
Sze is the founding director of the Environmental Justice Project for UC Davis' John Muir Institute for the Environment. Her book, Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice, won the 2008 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, awarded annually to the best published book in American studies. Sze's research investigates environmental justice and environmental inequality; culture and environment; race, gender and power; and community health and activism. She has published on a wide range of topics such as energy and air pollution activism; toxicity; the cultural politics of the Hummer; and on environmental justice novels and cultural production.
The lecture is sponsored by the Diversity and Social Justice Project as part of its year-long series on environmental justice.
Sze is the founding director of the Environmental Justice Project for UC Davis' John Muir Institute for the Environment. Her book, Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice, won the 2008 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, awarded annually to the best published book in American studies. Sze's research investigates environmental justice and environmental inequality; culture and environment; race, gender and power; and community health and activism. She has published on a wide range of topics such as energy and air pollution activism; toxicity; the cultural politics of the Hummer; and on environmental justice novels and cultural production.
The lecture is sponsored by the Diversity and Social Justice Project as part of its year-long series on environmental justice.
